Type-magazine.



No. 694,3). Patented Feb, 25, I902.

L. A. BROTT.

TYPE MAGAZINE.

(Application med July 16, 1900. (No Modal.)

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TYPE MAGAZINE.

(Apglicatipn filed July 16, 1900.) (No Model.) v 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

U ITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

LUCIEN A. BROTT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE COM- POSITE TYPE BAR COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A COR- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-MAGAZINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,310, dated February 25, 1902. Application filed July 16, I900. Sierial No. 23,819. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUOIEN A. BROTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Magazines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a type-magazine for typographic machines. Its object is to provide a magazine which shall receive type elements, and especially wedge-shaped justifiers, and feed them gradually orin succession and butt-end forward toward the discharge end of the magazine.

In preceding applicationsfor example,in my application filed March 10, 1900, on which patent will be granted of even date with this I have described a machine comprising means for casting types and storing them in assorted columns, composing a line, transferring the line, and finally transforming the line into a, type-barbriefly-, the combination 'in an organized machine of type-settin g and bar-forming means to produce a type-bar.

During the composition of the line I introduce small wedge-shaped j ustifiers, which are placed to lie at right'angles to the substantially vertical character-bearing and other types, the apex of a justifier lying between the shoulders of two types just below their faces. The assembled line is transferred to a bar-block hung upon the end of an 'arm j ournaled upon the side of the machine. The bar-block swings up to a mouth of the melt ing-pot, the justifiers being forced in to justify the 'line during the upward movement. At the pot molten metal is cast into the spaces below the justifiers, and the line is converted into a type-bar. On the return movement of the bar-block the justifiers are knocked out of the type-bar, and the magazine, which'is the subject of this application, is provided to receive them and supply the needs of composition.

This magazine comprises, essentially, a receptacle having a substantially vertical channel and having in this example an inclined bottom leading to a chute, (not shown,) a movable partition or false bottom, means for opening the partition gradually from one end to the other, and mechanism for regulating the action of the means for moving the partition.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the machine, showing the magazine in place. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the magazine. Fig. 3 is a rear View. Fig. 4. is a horizontal section on line 4 4, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan. Fig. 6 is a vertical section on line 6 6, Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a view of a portion of the operating-slide. Fig. 8is a detail of the rack, illustrating the manner of operating the partition of the magazine; and Fig. 9 illustrates the manner of suspending the partitionof the magazine. Fig. 10 is a detail to accompany Fig. 7.

In Fig. 1 I' have illustrated the side of the machine which carries the justifier-magazine. In that figure I have used the reference-letters which designate corresponding parts in the preceding application before named, the

magazine itself being generally designated by the letter S. Its parts, as shown on Sheet 2, are designated by numerals.

I will briefly describe some of the elements of the machine as shown in Fig. 1. A is the power-shaft, A is the frame of the machine, and A the cap. 0 is the melting-pot. F is one of a pair of slides carrying the mold operator and selector governing the discharge of cast types, and f is a pinion which operates the slide. 1? is the crank and I the connecting-rod, and P which they actuate, is the arm which carries the bar-block. P is the rear operatingarm to exert a downward pull on the arm P just before its return movement after it has swung upthe bar-block. P is the arm which engages the rack-bar P,

the rack-bar operating to revolve the bar operation of the rack-bar P either to draw.

itin or to throw it out, according to the path taken by the roller on the end of the arm 10 R is the bar-block, which carries the assembled line of types and which is swung on the end of the arm P R is a mutilated gear on the bar-block through which the rack-bar P partially rotates the bar block in one direction as the bar-block is swung up and in the oppositeor return direction as it is brought back. Q is a pump, and Q is the mouth of the melting-pot, to which the barblock is presented. It is a slide carrying tappets and camways for operating elements of the bar-block, j ustifier-magazine, and bargalley. r is the lever whichractuates the slide R Sis the justifier-magazine. Tis the box of the bar-galley; T the stick or holder forthe type-bars; T the packer for the barpacker T Power applied through the shaft A sweeps the crank P around to the right, the connectin g-rod P drawing down the end of the leverarm P and starting the bar-block R on its way to the mouth Q of the melting-pot O. The rock-shaft 19" turns, carrying back the arm P and pulling back the rack-bar P, which engages the mutilated gear R and partially rotates the bar-block. The types are now lygalley, and 25 the arm which operates the .ing in a channel in the bar-block, their heads down with the thin ends or apexes of the j ustifiers across the line, each between the shoulders and near the heads of two types. The bar-block is brought up to the mouth Q of the melting-pot and dwells there till the metal is cast into the spaces between'the' type and beneath the justifiers, whereupon the barblock after a slight downward movement through the pull of the arm P on the arm P is started upon its return movement. One of the first operations onthis return movement is to knock out the justifiers, which fall into the mouth of the magazine, the type-bars being subsequently discharged upon the stick or holder T of the bar-galley box T, the barblock then swinging back to its original position.

Referring now to the views of Sheet 2, Figs. 2 to 9, illustrating the improved justifiermagazine, 1 represents a front plate,-2 a rear plate, and 3 a channel with an inclined bottom 4. The channel 3 comprises three divisions, an upper 5, a lower 6, these two being vertical and in different planes, and an intermediate inclined division 7, connecting 5 and 6 and having a shoulder 8. Between the divisions 6 and 7 of the channel lies a movable partition or false bottom 9, supported at each end by pivoted swinging hangers 10. The partition isof trapezoidal form, the front being inclined, so that the width of the bottom gradually increases from one end to the other. At one end is a pin or projection 11. The rear plate 2 has at each end a bracket extension 12. The one adjacent the machine is grooved to receive a rack 13 and a trip-arm 14, L-shaped in cross-section, pivoted to the nel of the magazine. to one end of the front plate 1, its free end rack and pressed by a spring 15, so that its top normally lies against a wall of the groove and away from the rack. A shaft 16 is journaled in the bracket extensions 12 and bears at the machine end a pinion 17, which meshes with the rack 13. One end of the shaft is encircled bya d'rawn spring18', one arm of which bears against a hanger 10, theother end engaging a pin 19, which is held by and projects from an arm 20, fixed to the shaft 16. A spring-pressed pawl 21 is mounted on the arm 20 and engages a ratchet 22, which is mounted on a sleeve 23, loose on the shaft 16. The opposite end of the sleeve is provided with a gear-wheel 24, which, with a gear-wheel 25, constitutes a bevel-gear. The gear-wheel 25 carries an escapement-wheel 26, and both are mounted on a stud 27, secured to a block or projection 28, theblock being recessed, as indicated at 29, to permit the movement of the movable bottom 9. The escapement-wheel with a detent or anchor 30, fork 31, and counterbalance 32 constitute the familiar escape ment and pendulum or clock mechanism. In a recess in the upper part of the magazine in the front plate 1 lies a serrated slide 33, which is held by a spring 34in the path of an incline 35 on the slide R or apexes of the justifiers and tilt them just before their discharge from the upper chan- Thearm 25 is pivoted playing ina recess-guide at the other end of the plate. This arm is reciprocated by the action of the slide R and operates the packerarmT to force down the type-barsand holder lying in the galley, as described in mydesignated application.

Operation: The line of type having been transformed into a type-bar at the mouth Q of the melting-pot and the bar-block having begun its return to its original position, the slide R is depressed bymeans of the bell- It is the function of the serrations to receive and guide the tops too crank lever 0", as described in my designated preceding application, causing the discharge of the justifiers. The justifiers fall into the mouth of the magazine S, their buttends striking the shoulder 8, so that each justifier is tilted forward to insure placing the apex' of each one in one of the openings or between two of the teeth of the serrated slide 33. A projection 36 on the face of the slide R now engages the top of the rack 13 and depresses it, thereby turning the pinion 17 and its shaft 16, throwing over the arm 20, and through the pin 19 tensioning the spring 18, so that it is stored with energy. As the rack 13 descends the arm 14. travels with it, the top of the arm sliding down a wall of its channel, yielding to pass the pin or projection 11, and then snapping under the pin, so that the beveled shorter side of the L may take in behind the pin on the upward movement of the rack and arm. The slide R is now carried up, removing pressure from the rack '13, which is free to be lifted to its first position by the action of the pinion 17, driven by the spring 18. As the rack rises the beveled side of the arm 14: forces out the pin 11 and opens the movable bottom. The escapement regulates the action of the trip-arm on the pin, so that the partition is gradually and gently opened to offer a discharge-opening which widens from end to end, so that the justifiers are discharged in even succession, each one reaching the mouth of the supplychute without interference. It is necessary to the proper working of this device that the ment the spring 34 holds the slide 33 in engagement with the face of slide R but below the incline 35, so that the slide 33 is ready on the downward movement of slide R to move into engagement with the incline 35. The movable bottom of the magazine at the same time is free to be returned to its normal position under pressure of the end of spring 18, which presses against one of the hangers 10, the arm 14 having passed beyond pin 11.

As indicated in the statement of invention hereinbefore, my invention while especially designated for wedge-shaped justifiers and for my designated machine is broadly applicable to type elements and typographic machines.

Having fully described my invention, I claim 1. In a type-magazine, the combination of a receptacle having a channel to receive type elements, a partition, means for moving the partition, and mechanism for regulating the movement.

2. In a type-magazine, the combination of a receptacle for the type elements, having a movable partition or false bottom, means for actuating the partition, and an escapement mechanism for regulating the movement.

3. A type-magazine having an upper channel to receive the type elements, a lower channel with an inclined bottom to discharge the type elements, an intervening movable partition, and means for tilting the type elements, so that they may fall sidewise toward the inclined bottom.

4. A type-magazine for wedge-shaped justifiers having in combination an upper channel, a lower channel with an inclined bottom, an intervening partition, and means for moving the partition at stated periods,'a serrated slide lying in the wall of the upper channel to receive the apexes of the justifiers, and means for reciprocating the slideto tilt the justifiers so that they may fall with their buttends directed toward the lower or discharge end of the inclined bottom.

5. In a type-magazine, the combination of a receptacle having a channel to receive a series of type elements, a partition or false bot tom gradually reduced from one end to the other, means for moving the partition to dis charge the type elements in succession, mechanism for regulating the movement of the partition, and means for positioning the type elements so that they may be guided in their fall toward the point of discharge.

6. In a type-magazine, the combination of a receptacle having a channel to receive and guide a series of type elements, a swinging trapezoidal partition dividing the channel, a rack carrying a spring-pressed trip which engages and operates the partition, a pinion op erated by the rack and carrying a shaft, a spring having a pawl-and-ratchet connection with the shaft so that it is energized by the rotation of the shaft, an escapement mechanism and intermediate gear connecting it with the spring, and means for operating the rack.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUCIEN A. BROTT. 

